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**From Reviewers Choice Best Book of the Year nominee and international bestselling author Laura Florand:** **Her father’s worst enemy...** Top chef Gabriel Delange never forgave his old nemesis Pierre Manon for all the other chef had cost him. **One stolen rose...** And he most certainly couldn’t stand the sight of his own most famous dessert, the legendary Rose, claimed as Pierre’s own on the cover of his new cookbook. **A beast’s substitute victim...** But even Gabriel could hardly go through with a lawsuit when he learned the older chef had just had a stroke.  Especially not when Pierre had one very cute daughter willing to be Gabriel’s victim instead. **A fascinated beauty...** As a child, Jolie Manon had seen her family torn apart by her top chef father’s obsession with his work.  As a food writer, she might be fascinated with a chef’s work, but she knew how to guard her heart.  She would never allow another chef into her life.  **Unless he blackmailed her into it...** Welcome to the heat and sun of Provence, where jasmine and roses climb up old colored walls, where fountains play in ancient stone villages, and where even a beast can prove he is a prince at heart... ** ** **Also available in La Vie en Roses series** *Turning Up the Heat *(a prequel novella, Léa and Daniel’s story) *Once Upon a Rose* (Book 1, Matthieu and Layla’s story) *A Wish Upon Jasmine *(Book 2, Damien and Jasmin's story) Want to make sure you don’t miss the next Rosier story? Sign up for Laura’s new releases email here: www.lauraflorand.com/newsletter. **Praise for Laura Florand and her novels** “I adored this story…Paris, chocolate, and romance, all in one hilarious package.”—New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James “It’s like when you find that amazing piece of chocolate — you take a bite, and it sits on your tongue and melts into a pool of liquid heaven.” – RT Book Reviews “Seriously, get this book. Thank me later. Once you wash the melted chocolate off your hands…” – USA Today bestselling author Donna Kauffman “Readers will devour this frothy, fun novel.” – Booklist “Both sensual and sweet, a story that melts in your mouth.” – USA Today bestselling author Christie Ridgway "One of the cleverest, most persuasive enemies-to-lovers stories I've read in a long time."--Dear Author Recommended Read for The Chocolate Kiss "A lovely confection of a contemporary romance."--Dear Author Recommended Read for The Chocolate Thief